VM-Aware

IBM’s SVC has been around for a good few years now and it is by all accounts quite popular. It does a great job of aggregating lots of disparate storage (IBM and Non-IBM) and presenting through a more scalable and manageable interface.

Well SVC has had a make-over with the release of 4.3 and some of the key feature announced in the press release are:

• Space Efficient Virtual Disks - Or as everybody else calls it Thin Provisioning
• Space Efficient FlashCopy - Or as everybody else calls it Thin Provisioned Snapshots
• Virtual Disk Mirroring - Or as everybody else calls it High Availability
• Improved Interoperability - Or as everybody else calls it… err Improved Interoperability (Mac OS X Server and WIndows 2008)

All good stuff that is already available in something like DataCore and is a very welcome addition to a mature product.

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Tags: IBM, Storage Virtualisation

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